IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kolob
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983UT021001
  • User Pedon ID: 83UT021001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0910
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53691
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: SE 1/4, NE 1/4. Sec. 2.
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT021—Iron

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kolob
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, montmorillonitic Argic Pachic Cryoborolls
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
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    2812

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    1A11—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; loam; 19 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04637. 5% rock fragments.; common fine roots; common very fine roots
    1A12—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04638. 5% rock fragments.; common fine roots; common very fine roots
    1AB—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, dry; clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04639. 5% rock fragments.; few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    1Bt1—53 to 86 centimeters (20.9 to 33.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 18 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04640. 15% rock fragments.; few medium roots; few very fine and fine roots
    1Bt2—86 to 117 centimeters (33.9 to 46.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay loam; 33 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04641. 15 to 20% rock fragments.; few medium roots; few very fine and fine roots
    1Bt3—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior, dry; clay loam; 33 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 83P04642. 20% rock fragments.; few very fine and fine roots